It had been a few weeks since the last snow producing winter storm system for Iowa. While the system yesterday was small and fast moving, it caused significant traffic issues including a major pile up on Interstate 80 east of Des Moines. This system also prompted the issuance of a new-to-Iowa NWS product called the "Snow Squall Warning". These warnings cover spatially confined, brief, but intense snow squalls that create the rapidly change driving conditions. The featured map shows that snowfall amounts were very light over the state with very isolated reports of two inches over far northwestern Iowa.

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